Earn Money By Applying Your Photography Skills

Do you take good photograph? Do you have passion? If the answer is yes, you are very close to start making money using your photography skills.

There are a number of websites in which you can join that will actually let you sell your photographs to anyone who is interested. Most of these sites do cost a bit of money to join, but once you are a member you have the opportunity to upload as many photos as you want and sell them over and over again.

People who are looking for photos for websites, blogs, or any other kind of online medium that requires photos will search these sites looking for what they need.

If you have what they need then you can realize a little extra money in your bank account. You can even work with websites that will arrange all the billing and bill collecting for you so all you have to do is log on and see how much you have made.

Shareapic

Shareapic is a free service that allows its users to upload and host their images on our servers. Shareapic has a unique revenue sharing model that compensates users for directing their friends and family to see their hosted images. When a member hosts a gallery, they can then show this gallery to others. Each time this is done, the member is paid an average $2 per 1000 views or $0.002 each.

Shutterstock

You can submit your photos to Shutterstock and get paid every time one of your photos is downloaded. Web designers, magazine editors, and other graphic artists purchase monthly subscriptions to Shutterstock to download photos. Shutterstock will pay you 25 cents every time one of your images is downloaded. Once you reach $500 in earnings, your commission goes up to 30 cents pe download.

Shutterstock is different than other stock models. Buyers subscribe on a monthly basis and can download up to 750 images over the course of 30 days. Your cut? Shutterstock will pay you 25 cents every time one of your images is downloaded. Once you reach $500 in earnings,

iStockPhoto

iStockphoto is the internet's original member-generated image and design community. Here you can earn atlease 20% of every credit that's used to download your artwork.

Fotolia

Fotolia is an international stock photography agency (image bank) where people can buy and sell images to illustrate professional and commercial brochures, advertisements, magazines, websites, etc.

You will be paid each time one of your images is sold on Fotolia, you get a commission added to your Fotolia account. Once you accumulate a minimum of 50 earned credits (1 credit = $1) you can cash out this money at any time via Paypal or Moneybookers. The commission amount depends on an images exclusivity given to Fotolia and whether the image is downloaded as part of a subscription.

You can also earn money participating in Online Photography Contests. See http://www.photographycontest.ws/